An oceanfront mansion once owned by Donald Trump at 515 N. County Road was photographed this month by Robert Stevens before crews began demolition of the main residence. Trump sold the property for $95 million in 2008. Photo courtesy RobertStevens.com

An oceanfront estate once owned by Donald Trump at 515 N. County Road was photographed this month by Robert Stevens before crews began demolition of the main residence. Trump sold the property for $95 million in 2008. Photo courtesy RobertStevens.com

Trump bought the 6-acre property in a bankruptcy auction in 2004, long before he became this year’s Republican presidential nominee.

Palm Beach real estate agents quoted in the article include Gary Pohrer of Douglas Elliman. He comments on the sales prices that owner Dmitry Rybolovlev might set for the three lots to be subdivided from the North End estate, once the demolition of the mansion there is completed. The article says the 2-acre lots are estimated to be marketed at between $35 million and $40 million each. One lot will offer 173 linear feet of oceanfront, and the others will have about 150 feet on the beach, town records show.

“It’s an aggressive price,” Pohrer told the Times.

The article does not mention Lawrence Moens of Lawrence A. Moens Associates, the Palm Beach broker who is expected to market the property for Rybolovlev, once the demolition of the mansion is finished. That project is likely to be done by the beginning of next week.

Moens, who has declined to comment on the lots, represented Trump in the 2008 sale.

The Times article by Robert Frank also quotes Brown Harris Stevens agent Carol Digges, who acted on behalf of Rybolovlev in the sale.

The Russian billionaire found what he was looking for once she took him to the mansion, known as Maison de l’Amitié.

The Times quotes a statement by Rybolovlev issued at the time of the Trump sale: “This acquisition is simply an investment,” said Rybolovlev, who added that the purchase “does not represent a decision by me to live in the U.S.”